well, farm Kangnas, portion Goebees: Late/Upper Cretaceous, South Africa
collected by J. Crozier, Coetzee & A. Rogers 1913–1914

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Kangnasaurus coetzeei n. gen., n. sp. Haughton 1915
1 individual
SAM 2731, 2732
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Western Cape
Coordinates: 29.5° South, 18.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° South, 2.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: exposed in well at a depth of 34 m; probably younger than 80 mya
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary poorly lithified conglomerate
Secondary lithology:planar lamination,volcaniclastic,intraclastic calcareous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a poorly sorted, immature, coarse clastic unit of colluvial rubble"; "calcified and silicified quartzofelspathic grits and breccias". Fossils associated with a calcareous, ostracod-bearing mudrock and volcaniclastic breccia; it is laminated, with scattered lithic clasts."
Environment:crater lake
Geology comments: "quiet deposition, under subaqueous conditions, probably lacustrine sedimentation", probably a "crater-fill succession above an olivine-melilitie intrusion"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. Crozier, Coetzee & A. Rogers Collection dates:1913–1914
Collection method comments: site revisited in 1990 for sediment samples
Metadata
Also known as:Kangnasaurus type site, Goubies
Database number:68017
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-12-21 13:17:50 Last modified:2017-07-14 14:52:35
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-21 13:17:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45359. S. H. Haughton. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5(1):259-264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

19458ETE M. R. Cooper. 1985. A revision of the ornithischian dinosaur Kangnasaurus coetzeei Haughton, with a classification of the Ornithischia. Annals of the South African Museum 95(8):281-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19460ETE M. C. J. de Wit, J. D. Ward, and R. Spaggiari. 1992. A reappraisal of the Kangnas dinosaur site, Bushmanland, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 88:504-507 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55258 A. W. Rogers. 1915. The occurrence of dinosaurs in Bushmanland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 5(1):265-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]